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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Facial disfigurement is the new dead parents! ...For supervillains, at least.
Oh God! Natural light!And anti-heroes.
◊ Though he didn't fuck up his own face.
There should be a supervillain whose entire aim is to just go around fucking up people's faces for no reason. No wait, a superhero.
edited 14th Nov '14 11:44:58 PM by KnownUnknown
That sounds like something Deadpool would try if he had nothing better to do.
edited 15th Nov '14 1:54:50 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!If Baron Zemo, and with him, the Masters of Evil, ever showed up in the MCU, Infinity War would make a nice set up for a Thunderbolts movie.
I can see it now: Thanos is defeated, but with a terrible price: the Avengers, save for a few members, have disappeared and are presumed dead. A mysterious brand new superhero team, headed by some guy called Citizen V, rises out of the ashes of the Infinity War...
edited 15th Nov '14 8:38:42 AM by Nightwire
Guardians of the Galaxy was supposedly a reaction to Green Lantern, although I don't know if I can believe it considering the gap between them.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah, I'm fairly certain Marvel's reaction to Green Lantern was to laugh hysterically, high five each other, then go back about their business.
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I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of the stuff the writers and Russo brothers were talking about prior to the Civil War announcement did not sound like they were heading towards Civil War.
As for the Suicide Squad connection I think the similarities are bound to occur, but it depends on which version of the Thunderbolts they choose to adapt. As long as they don't use the Jeff Parker run (which was for all intents and purposes as Suicide Squad clone) they should be good.
I doubt it. Marvel seems really particular about the timing of their movies. There's no way they haven't been carefully planning out this order. It was what, two, three weeks between DC announcing their whole slate and Marvel doing the same? They wouldn't have changed their plans that quickly just because DC did something.
I have a feeling the thing holding up Marvel's announcement was that they wanted to have a new actor to present. The original plan was for them to have Joaquin Phoenix at SDCC and officially announce Doctor Strange. It would not be a shock if they had planned on announcing all the way to Infinity War then, especially since they'd put out all the dates only a couple weeks before. Since Phoenix didn't sign, the announcement went on hold until they signed somebody for anything. And since Strange is taking forever to find, that happened to be Chadwick Boseman.
Granted, that's just a guess. But it's a less reactionary one.
Wasn't it just a few days? If I remember correctly DC made a few announcement during Comic Con, but the actual slate which included wonder woman aso was announced later during a stockholder meeting. And then Marvel came around with their announcement...which was too well planed to be a spur of the moment thing. You don't sign a lead actor for a movie that fast, so Black Panther had to be in the works beforehand.
I think we can also assume that if you're a superhero and Chainsaw Vigilante catches you, your face will be messed up.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

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